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I’ve never seen A Muppet Christmas Carol, but just looking at these pictures has caused me to start weeping uncontrollably.
It’s considered one of the better adaptations. Gonzo plays Charles Dickens, as Dickens historically made a fair bit of money in his later years narrating his stories in person. Michael Caine plays Scrooge. It’s excellent. Kermit and Piggy are Bob and Emily Crathit.
Michael Caine put more love and care into playing the role straight than I would have expected.
Agreed. He treated the muppets as fellow actors and it created a wonderful energy that still shines through all these years later.
There’s a few Scrooge movies I like to catch each year: Muppet Christmas Carol, Scrooged, and Spirited has joined the ranks recently. There’s one particular scene in that last one that absolutely horrifies me in the best way. They modernized a lot of it and made it more accessible to people who might otherwise see these concerns as outdated.
Bean bunny deserves better. Wildly underrated muppet.
Why isn’t he burrowing? He would be much comfier in a nice den.
They stopped teaching that in schools.
Seems to me like that bunny should GET A JOBBBBBB
Also i really want the government to be run by unregistered sex offenders. Every night I pray that God will let my guy get away with it.
This reminds of the line from the Charles Dickens book. I’m pretty sure the Muppets Christmas Carol was actually one of the carol versions that took many of its lines from the book and followed it very accurately.
Anyway, the line is scrooge responding to the insufficient state of the poor houses and that some people would rather die than live in them. He says:
If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population
It’s interesting how even in Dickens times this idea of the problem being “too many people” was used as an excuse for poverty and inequality by the capitalist and bankers. Seeing as it’s still being done today. And many people still fall for this lie.
This is a report on industry contemporary to the time
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Commission_on_Hand-Loom_Weavers
Although keep in mind this was in the context of England plundering India of wealth at the same time. So it’s as much about inequality as anything, as always.
